- Death, Teacher-student relationships, Funeral rites and ceremonies, School sports
Bij het sterfbed van zijn coach maakt de voormalige sterspeler van een American football team de balans op van zijn jeugd.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 190
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Delta, Ediciones B
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- English, Polish, French, German
- ISBN
- 9780099557258
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“The road to Rake Field ran beside the school, past the old band hall and the tennis courts, through a tunnel of two perfect rows of red and yellow maples planted and paid for by the boosters, then over a small hill to a lower area covered with enough asphalt for a thousand cars.”
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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